Topic: Aldine Franklin House

The Governor, Jane Owen, announced the winners of the 2025 Governor’s Award for Design and Construction Excellence, presented at Government House recently.

For more than a hundred years, a modest traditional Caymanian wattle-and-daub dwelling  has sat on the same patch of grass while the world around it changed. But those days are swiftly coming to an end, as work to uproot and relocate the home has begun.

Foster's supermarket managing director Woody Foster has told the Central Planning Authority that the only viable option of preserving a 103-year-old traditional Caymanian house on property on which he plans to expand his West Bay store is to relocate it to East End.